| ATLANTA, GA, June 11, 2008 – The Rainmaker
Group, the world leader in automated revenue
management software and services to the gaming hospitality and multifamily
housing industries for total
customer profitability, announced it is releasing its popular revolution
and revolution LROtm Profit Optimization
Suites on the Microsoft software platform, providing clients with the flexibility
via Microsoft’s .NET Framework architecture to self-host, or have Rainmaker
host their applications.
“With a host of systems and disparate information, hospitality organizations often struggle to calculate the total value of a customer relationship,” said Sandra Andrews, U.S. hospitality industry solutions director, Microsoft Corp. “The Rainmaker Group’s profit optimization software helps hospitality firms determine this critical information, providing the best possible service for customers at the greatest possible profit for hoteliers. We value our relationship with Rainmaker and look forward to continuing to work together to serve our mutual customers.” The revolution Product Suite is an enterprise Revenue Management system for chains and hotel groups that enables casino properties to increase revenue by instantly determining the minimum acceptable value of each new reservation based on total customer value. This helps hotels secure the most profitable mix of business, while ensuring there is space availability for a client's best customers. The revolution revenue optimization suite is installed by the largest and most successful casino hotels in the world. Rainmaker clients include:
 About
Rainmaker Group
The Rainmaker Group, is a software and services company that provides revenue management for more than one-half million units in the gaming hospitality, multifamily housing and other industries. Rainmaker implements and supports the revolution Product Suite, which maximizes total guest profitability for operators of casino hotels and other hospitality enterprises. The company enables clients to identify and maintain availability for their most profitable revenue sources through revenue management implementations. This increases client profitability by securing the most profitable customers and developing more effective business processes. Hospitality clients include Boyd Gaming, Harrah’s Entertainment, Omni Hotels, MGM MIRAGE, Trump Entertainment Resorts and other leading hotel companies. The Rainmaker Group, a Microsoft partner, also provides the revolution LRO profit optimization solution that enables multifamily housing operators to maximize revenue from apartment leases. revolution LRO lease rate improvement results have been reviewed and validated by independent accounting firms. For more than five years, revolution LRO has delivered optimized leasing rates to the largest operators in the industry including Archstone-Smith, Equity Residential, Post Properties, Simpson Housing, Mid-America Apartment Communities and a number of other leading multifamily housing companies. |
“Rainmaker’s
new relationship with Microsoft is valuable for our clients,” said Bruce
Barfield, president of The Rainmaker Group. “The Microsoft .NET Framework
architecture enables us to provide clients with the most effective profit
optimization solutions on a flexible hosting platform. Our users in the
casino hotel and multifamily housing markets now have the option of hosting
our systems themselves, or relying on our secure SunGard hosting services
thanks to our Microsoft working relationship.” The Rainmaker Group’s systems
utilize Microsoft SQL Server and Office Excel to warehouse, distribute
and publish their profit optimization outputs.